How to select and replace the whole page with jQuery

Question

My design of a page forces me to refresh the whole page with html that I have loaded via ajax.

$(\'html\').replaceWith(data);

Gives me errors. A

Answer 1

this might be the solution you'll require, It replaces the entire document including its head. You won't have any issues loading your new css, js & other resources. I've assumed you receive the new html content by invoking a REST api:

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: form.attr('action'),
  data: form.serialize(), // serializes form elements
  success: function(response) {
    // re-writes the entire document
    var newDoc = document.open("text/html", "replace");
    newDoc.write(response);
    newDoc.close();
  }
});